The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-30
CHICKS IN EGG CRATES.
Warehouses Converted Into Incuba-
tors by the Hot Weather.
H., A., IN s,..-.,

From the Chicago Nail.
After it is all over and the smoke of bat
tie has cleared away, as they say in post
election times, it becomes more and moro
certain that last week was the hottest ON
record. The traditional ''whoppern that
the weather was hot enough to cook eggs in
the sun was very nearly realized on South
Water street. The air was SO hot that chick
ems were Matched in the eggs in crates put
in the shadiest and coolest parts of the store
AT F. Woods store, at 1877 South Water
street, Billy Kreuzor was going to get some
eggs for the ''candler" to work on, and
when he came to the consignment of five
cases Of eggs from Rose, H., he
the lowest tier There's mice in
there" he said, but 10! when he
took off the cover of the bottom
layer, fifteen young chickens Just boiled out
Two more had pipped out, but the air was
not warm enough to dry them out and they
died. Mr.. Wood distributed them among
some of the clerks, keeping two himself
One of them is dead, but the rest are as
clipper as if they had had regulation
mamma hen to coddle them and
cluck over them. One more chicken
made its debut from the same lot yesterday
AS they all came from the same lot of three
dozen ard had only been in the store a few
days Mr. Wood thinks they had been set on
and got well on to maturity before they were
shipped. Then the warm air finished the
job. There are other cases on the same
street, but as this is the largest number Mr.
Wood thinks he is entitled to the prize.
At P B. Weaver's, two doors east, seven
little black chickens were discovered by Ed
Jones, the Gambler" last Friday, in some
eggs from Coulterville, ILL., Five of them
were nice and dry, but the other two were
wet and had Just entered this world of care
and sorrow. The rest of the case were good
eggs, comparatively. At least th0re were
no springs i'll them These chickens were
put in a box in the alley, and werc doing
well, with the exception Of one little
stranger who succumbcd to the heat Sunday
afternoon. Monday the lot was sold for
quarter to a man who was pleased with
them.
NJ G. Hoffman,, in T. D. Randall's but
ter and egg store at PIT South Water street,
found four little strangers in a crate of eggs
from Dubois when he was turning the case
over last Tuesday.
I've been in the business fourteen years
said Mr.. Hoffman,, land this is the first
| ever heard of such thing. 1t lays over
anything | ever heard of. But there they
were, just as clipper as as you please. They
are all alive so far"
This very morning d. J. Maxon, Of o. d.
Emerson q Co, 215 South Water street,
took out three live chicks from case of
eggs. ~ gave them 10 the old man." he
said, "and he took them home. This is the
first l ever heard of live chickens being
found in the eggs. OF course they're often
found dead in the shell, half maturcd, but
we've never had weather hot enough TO hatch
them. You see, they got pretty warm, and
then, being stacked up in such big piles,
they retained the heat, which it seems was
enough to hatch them. But turning eggs TO
chickens amt the worse of it. Fully one
half of the eggs received during the hot
spell are simply cooked. The white and the
yolll have all run together, and they are
completely spoiled l never saw the like
before. Now, ! was looking at some eggs
with the candle this morning, and in no
crate did l get more than fifteen dozen of
good eggs-just about half, you see. All
the rest were no good"